sex work

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OnlyFans controversy highlights the bind facing most gig workers

03 Sep 2021

Strip away the sexy marketing and what you have is just another digital platform shifting legal responsibilities and risks.

A protest at the Melbourne Writers Festival in 2016. Photo: Vixen Collective image archive

Victoria’s opportunity to decriminalise sex work

09 Sep 2020

UNSW academics argue that the review into sex work could result in positive changes to the working conditions for many sex workers.

The stigma of sex work comes with a high cost

10 Aug 2017

For sex workers, legal, cultural and social discourse is characterised by prurience, titillation, outrage and disgust – all the hallmarks of stigma, writes Zahra Zsuzsanna Stardust.

The rise and fall of Rentboy.com

28 Aug 2015

History shows us sex work is an enduring social expression of sexuality, write Denton Callander and John Scott.

Sex work in NSW: healthiest in the world

23 Mar 2012

The decriminalisation of sex work in NSW – combined with a free market approach – has resulted in one of the healthiest sex industries ever documented, a report to NSW Health has found.